Twin city tales
Subtitle: a hermeneutical reassessment of Tula and Chichén Itzá
By: Lindsay Jones ; photographs by Lawrence G. Desmond.
Series: Mesoamerican worlds
Publisher: University Press of Colorado; University of Colorado Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Niwot, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Indian architecture -- Mexico.; Indians of Mexico -- Religion.; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.; Tula Site (Tula de Allende, Mexico); Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
Description: "Comparative study of ritual architecture of Toltec Tula (Hidalgo) and Chichén Itza of  the northern Maya lowlands(Yucatán). Offers new interpretations of architectural symbolism and its relationship to forms of power and rulership that explain formal architectural similarities between these postclassic cities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-467) and index.